[Vision2020] Bouma didn't show up

[keely emerinemix]

Sue, you nailed it.  This is spot-on.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




From: suehovey at moscow.com
To: reggieholmquist at u.boisestate.edu; vision2020 at moscow.com; nickgier at roadrunner.com
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:25:56 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bouma didn't show up







I am furious about his refusal to discuss issues with his 
opponent.    Gresham Bouma is milking the postcard incident for 
all it’s worth.  I’m beginning to wonder now, just who did send it?  
Bouma has certainly used this as an excuse to hide behind his followers and keep 
his philosophical ideas to himself.  I have to say, I wish now I had not 
denied Nick Gier the opportunity for a follow up question at the AARP 
Forum.  I recognized Bouma was evading the legitimate concerns of Mr. Gier 
and others who have read the sermons posted on the church website (I guess 
they’ve been pulled now.) but I had never through the years allowed a followup 
and decided not to at that time.  I was totally stupid.  Bouma knew he 
would get away with his evasive rationale and I was concerned about being even 
handed.  I neglected to be fair because I was concerned about 
protocol.  Nick, I’m sorry. 
 
The other concern I have is Bouma’s education ad.  He touts his 
service as a public school teacher, auditor, whatever, shows the picture of his 
cute (he really is, I talked with him) young son, who has been home 
schooled.  One needs to ask, “when teachers school their own students at 
home or in places other than the public schools, just where does their loyalty 
lie?”  
 
Someone on this website mentioned what?  Bouma’s  4 or 5 traffic 
tickets over the past decade.  (Declaration:   I got one, too, 
once.  It was 40 something years ago when Scott was a baby. It was all his 
fault.)    And one of Bouma’s  is for speeding through a 
work zone.  And a fishing violation....another issue.   I wasn’t 
going to speak to this  anywhere, but Bouma refuses to deal with the 
“unwashed” so I’ll do it here.    The positions of his minister 
are legitimate questions for those of us who would ask Bouma’s response to  
them.  I was particularly incensed by the incident when his minister 
promoted Bouma’s campaign from the pulpit then admitted he knew it was a 
violation of federal law for him to do so.  Did Bouma repudiate that 
statement?  There is no record he did.  And now, I understand, all 
that material has been removed from their website.  Are they ashamed?  
They should be. What it leaves me to believe is this:   GRESHAM BOUMA 
WILL OBEY THE LAW IF HE FEELS IT IS HIS RELIGIOUS RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO.  
IF HE FEELS IT ISN’T, HE IS PERFECTLY WILLING TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY. Reminds me 
of a former governor of Texas who said it wasn’t a lie if there wasn’t a Bible 
in the room.   I do not want that sort of person representing me in 
Boise—Bouma must love Phil Hart, he campaigned with him.  So now he’s 
willing to tie himself to folks who don’t pay their taxes and steal from public 
school children.   No, you can’t ask him about any of that.  He 
refuses to participate in any activity in which he can’t control the 
questions.  

Sue Hovey
 


 

From: Reggie Holmquist 
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:48 PM
To: Moscow Vision 2020 
Subject: [Vision2020] Bouma didn't show up
 
Title 
says it all.  Bouma didn't show up to the radio call-in show tonight.  
This upsets me greatly, because I REALLY wanted to ask him a question.  
Grrrrrr. . .

-Reggie
-- 
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states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why 
it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more 
bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has 
already happened. 

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